Of course, existing coal, oil and gas have enjoyed decades of subsidies. An nuclear subsidy is probably hard to calculate. The other story here is the trends. Older technologies aren’t getting much cheaper. New renewables are on a very steep price decrease curve. From Visual Capitalist.
For TLDRers: Its all about frackers, mostly here in Texas. My understanding has always been that fracking technology was never economically competitive, especially when you figure in negative methane (“natural gas”) prices. Yes, they will pay you to take natural gas in Texas these days. Predictably, it just ends up burned or “vented” into the atmosphere. From Scientific American (which somewhat cowardly lists this completely factual article as “Opinion”).
I keep wondering how such vast quantities of FPAS, “Forever Chemicals” are being found in our environment. From The Guardian.
Steven A. Guccione 